Rejected petition Remove height restrictions in modelling agency's

Modelling agency's in general have height requirements that a male or female model should be. I want this height requirement to be abolished as it is a form of discrimination.

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Just like any other job application and any form of work, there should be no requirements to how a person should look and it should be open to all.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about who modelling agencies hire are a matter for individual modelling agencies, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to make height a protected characteristic in the Equality Act, so it is not legal to discriminate against people on the basis of their height.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 17 April 2024
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